The Bizarre, The Weird, The Irrelevant Laws Of India

BANGALORE: It’s always good to be abiding by laws. But what if the laws start hindering your basic activities?  Like, you can be sent to jail for flying a kite or you could be disqualified if you don’t have good-looking teeth. Strange isn’t? India is a country that does not hold any position for any kind of absurd or irrelevant laws.

But still, if you dig deep inside the history, you may find an accumulation of over 31 million pending cases and surprisingly that would take around 364 years to resolve them and that too by appointing 10.5 judges per million people.

Surely, these obsolete laws need to be cleaned from our country and the good news is that the Union government has introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha to retract 36 acts on 11 August 2014. Here are the 10 obsolete laws in the Indian history that demand repeal, as written by Damyanti Datta, India Today.

(1) Kite Alert

If flying a kite is one of leisure pursuit in your life then make sure that nobody informs the police about your spare time hobby, or you may get into trouble. It may seem a childish act at once but according to the Indian Aircraft Act, 1934 a kite, like a balloon is an ‘aircraft’.

So as per this law you must take a permit to make, possess or fly a kite similarly as one has to take permissions for a plane. But normally, this law has never been followed in India. Strange but true, as it happens only in India.

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